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Elsewhere on this thread someone posted that Connery's version of Bond was more cartoonish and lightweight than Moore's.
The original Bond remains the best Bond.
It is, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't incredibly well-played.
Can't deny the strength of Connery's career as well as his acting abilities though. Whether he's your favourite Bond or not is a completely different argument.
The last half of your sentence--well-played--our opinions agree.
We all love Bond here, but that is not a deep character with any sort of inner life. He's a kiss-kiss bang-banging robot, really. Making that compelling shows real talent and skill.
The late 70s onwards is where they try to flesh the character out marginally more (and it obviously is only very slight), and he acquires some flashes of vulnerability, some human kindness, and he even gains a past.
I guess I'll have to watch it, but I was not impressed with him in McMafia.
It's true about OHMSS, that is the first glimmer and then it's extinguished as soon as Connery returns. What are you thinking of with regards to FRWL though? His anger over Kerim? That probably is as dramatic as it got for ConneryBond.
I disagree when it comes to Dr. No and FRWL. There was nothing cartoonish or lightweight in those performances. Likewise, the laser beam scene in GF.
The performances aren't, but the character is. I would say his anger at Kerim's death is probably the most human ConneryBond ever gets; maybe his throwing up after the tarantula.
Incorrect, it's suggested but never shot. We merely see him go in the bathroom and shut the door. So I don't think it counts. ;)
It happens in the novel and he clutches his stomach so I think it's a pretty fair assumption.
As I said, suggested. But didn’t actually happen.
It does as you correctly said, happen in the novel.
Unless of course his dinner went thru him...........and the tarantula just made it worse.
Exactly, the implication is there, it happens. Just because something is offscreen it doesn’t mean it’s not intended to happen.
When entering the bathroom, he touches his stomach. But it's not implied that he's going to vomit. You can make your own assumptions, possibly because this is what happens in the novel.
But you made the point earlier that it was part of Connery's Bond character that makes him more human. But in this case it's only implied.
One could argue that someone vomiting is hardly a strong indicator of character or making them more human.
And I'm not sure if you even think it's implied or not:
When we see Bond step out of his car it is also suggested that he's driven somewhere, even if they didn't shoot him driving. But we accept that that's what the filmmakers are telling us.
If one wanted to argue. I would say it shows a vulnerability that ConneryBond almost never displays otherwise: he actually experiences some shock from an event he's been put through, whereas otherwise he's unflappable. He even gets shot in Thunderball but seems to experience no pain, carries on killing people and is fine by the next day.
Or maybe I was just messing with you. For fun.
That would be an odd thing to do for fun. Just having civil chats would be more fun, I'd suggest.
I think the genuine look of fear on Connery's face during the laser scene in GF is the most human Connery Bond gets. Admittedly the rest of the film he is ultra cool cinematic Bond in his absolute mojo prime.
After that it has to be the confrontation with Grant in the train before the fight scene.